Social Media

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Social Media Metrics in Scholarly Communication

This content is not available in the selected language. About the Special Issue Social media metrics – commonly coined as “altmetrics” – have been heralded as great democratizers of science, providing broader and timelier indicators of impact than citations. These metrics come from a range of sources, including Twitter, blogs, social reference managers, post-publication peer […] Read more

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Tweeting biomedicine: an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature

This content is not available in the selected language. Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation analysis. Data generated from social media activities can be used to reflect broad types of impact. […] Read more